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9/11 Made Us Safer, Says Bruce Schneier 280

Posted by timothy on Saturday May 08, 2010 @02:29PM from the silver-lining dept.

richi writes "Security guru and BT CTO Bruce Schneier discusses terrorist attacks. In fact, Bruce seems to be saying that 9/11 actually made us safer from terrorists, which seems like a curious argument. While Bruce's blog post is interesting and no doubt insightful, I'm not sure I really buy it. And what's the deal with the new rules for searching the TSA No Fly List? Why is it, in 2010, we're still mucking about with publishing database extracts and waiting hours for them to be searched? How about checking within seconds of an update? Couldn't someone volunteer to show them how to implement a reliable, scalable, NoSQL setup? Instead, the TSA plan to fix this is a classic 'big government' solution."

Submission + - Scientology a 'criminal organisation' (abc.net.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17, 2009 @06:21PM

An anonymous reader writes: Australian senator describes Scientology as a criminal organisation in a speech to parliament, saying they should be investigated by the police.

Full Disk Encryption - Xen, Windows and Linux? 49

Posted by Cliff on Saturday April 28, 2007 @02:37AM from the protecting-your-data-across-various-OSes dept.

Bofh To asks: "I'm in an industry that, more or less, requires full disk encryption, and to accomplish this, we use Pointsec on Windows. For the past 8 years, I've been running Linux on my work laptop, and this is the first time I'm running in a Windows only environment. I am interested in changing that, because I want to use Linux as my main platform, and only drop in to Windows when necessary (and use crossover if at all possible). I'm also interested in Xen, and would like to see if I can use that to virtualize Windows under Linux. My thought is that, as long as Pointsec is in dom0 and I use virtual disks for the Windows VM, I should be covered. The problem is that I'd also like a machine that is usable, as opposed to waiting endlessly as the virtual memory, virtual machine, pointsec, and xen all thrash around while I'm working on the machine. Has anyone used Pointsec for Linux, with Xen? "

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